Carole King

Micky Dolenz played to a full house at Disney World on Friday — but he really would have preferred not to be. "Frankly, I wish it was someone else," Dolenz said after finishing a few songs during the Flower Power concert series, part of the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival He got the gig after friend and bandmate Davy Jones died unexpectedly Feb. 29. Jones, a frequent Flower Power performer, was scheduled to appear at the festival this weekend. Dolenz, 67, said the death is still a "shocker" and that Jones was the closest thing he had ever had to a brother. The two had rocketed to fame in the 1960s in the TV show "The Monkees," a...

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